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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"convergent and discriminant validity"”.
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Convergent And Discriminant Validity of Biculturalism And Depression Among Northern Plains American Indians
… Inventory-Revised into a more valid and reliable research instrument for providing data regarding cultural orientation and identification among Northern Plains American Indians, convergent and discriminant validity was investigated. Two hundred and one Northern Plains American Indians …
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An evaluation of the construct validity of situational judgment tests
… the consistent finding of criterion-referenced validity but almost complete lack of construct validity evidence. The present study evaluates the extent to which SJT's can demonstrate convergent and discriminant validity by analyzing a SJT from a multitrait-multimethod perspective. A series of …
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Cultural Values in Context: Implications for Behavioral Intentions
Based on the first study, a standardized and contextualized Conservatism Behavioral Intention Survey (CoBIS) was constructed using 245 participants. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct validity, and convergent and discriminant validity were examined.
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The Perceived Community Engagement Survey: Structure, Reliability, and Validity of a Community-based Organization Measure of Engagement with the Broader Community
… little research within the community psychology and other literature exploring if CBOs represent the interest of communities.</p> <p>As funding entities have lately increased their interest in community representation, there has not been a corresponding research base to identify levels of …
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Medical tasks self-efficacy : initial scale development
… self efficacy are generalized across occupations and not relevant to someone who was already employed in a profession. The purpose of the present study was to develop a new scale, Medical Tasks Self-Efficacy (MTSE), to measure the self-efficacy beliefs of a specific employed population toward …
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A Construct Validity Analysis of a Leadership Assessment Center
This study was designed to assess the construct validity of a leadership assessment center. Participants were evaluated in a leadership assessment center and completed a 360 degree feedback tool designed to measure leadership. Convergent and discriminant validity coefficients were calculated …
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Family adaptation to medical illness inventory (FAMILLI) : the development of a measure for second order patients
… conducted to determine the internal structure and factor reliability estimates of a new instrument, the Family Adaptation to Medical ILLness Inventory (FAMILLI). The analysis of the FAMILLI was conducted using respondents (N=139) with family members of cancer. Respondents' ages ranged from 18 …
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The Development and Initial Validation of the Cultural Humility and Enactment Scale in Counseling
… of curiosity, a never-ending learning attitude, and a life-long process of self-reflection when encountering cultural diversity. Study of CH in the context of counseling is at a preliminary stage, primarily due to the dearth of conceptually and psychometrically sound measures. The study is …
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The Elkins Distress Inventory : development of a brief biopsychosocial battery for the assessment of pain and psychological distress in a chronic pain population.
… symptoms for which individuals seek health care and is the cause of significant medical expenditures. For many patients, pain may also lead to psychological distress, sleep disturbances, reduced quality of life, and impaired social relationships. Thus, thorough assessment of pain should encompass …
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Predictive validity of the five-factor model profiles for antisocial and borderline personality disorders
The predictive validity of D. R. Lynam and T. A. Widiger's (2001) Five-Factor Model prototypes for antisocial and borderline personality disorders was examined over a period of 6 years in large community sample. Generally, these prototype scores demonstrated good convergent and discriminant …
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The Search for Construct Validity of Assessment Centers: Does the Ease of Evaluation of Dimensions Matter?
… of evaluation of dimensions on the construct validity of a selection assessment center conducted in 1993. High ease of evaluation dimensions, operationalized as the greatest proportion of highly diagnostic behaviors, were expected to demonstrate greater construct and criterion related …
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A psychometric study of the Choose Respect Measure
Three studies examined the reliability and validity of the Choose Respect Measure (CRM), a 65 item scale that assesses adolescents’ knowledge of unhealthy relationship, warning signs, and behaviors of dating abuse; it also assesses their likelihood of engaging in a healthy dating relationship, …
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Construct Validity Analysis of the Organizational Cohesion Scale
… a multifaceted construct that has been defined and assessed in a multitude of ways. For the purpose of this study, the researcher has defined organizational cohesion as the extent to which employees within an organization feel a sense of unity with one another. Practitioners are often faced with …
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Work-Life Role Integration: A Construct Validation Study
<p>Two studies were conducted to define and validate the theoretical construct, role integration. Study 1 focused on producing a theoretical definition and a psychometrically sound measure. Content, convergent, and discriminant validity evidence was collected. Study 2 provided further validity …
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Convergent Validity of Self Reported Physical Activity with a Seven Day Recall
… in the relationship between physical activity and other variables. Questionnaires are the only feasible means for large-scale sampling but such self-report measures require validation due to their inherent subjectivity. The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) survey includes exercise items that …
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Cybersecurity in the workplace: factors that influence positive cybersecurity behavior against phishing in South African institutions
… organisations. A quantitative method was used, and data were collected online through a questionnaire survey. One hundred and twenty respondents from South African organisations participated. The partial least squares-structural equation modelling platform provided in SmartPLS-4 was used to …
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Development and Validation of a Novel Partner Rumination Scale
Depression and relationship distress are highly related, but the precise nature of this relationship is unclear (Whisman et al., 2021). Rumination is associated with both outcomes (Marroquin & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2015; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008), and further exploration of the construct in an …
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THE COLLEGE-GOING SELF EFFICACY SCALE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE
The purpose of the present study was to develop and validate the College-Going Self Efficacy Scale for High School Students (CSHS). The CSHS is a measure of self-efficacy in completing college-going tasks (i.e. acquiring knowledge of oneself, acquiring knowledge about colleges, exploring colleges, …
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